Some time ago, I blogged about a particularly nasty strain of E Coli food poisoning that was occurring in schools in our area, though thankfully not in our town or our immediately neighbouring towns.
There have been no further new cases for a few weeks now, so imagine our surprise when we went to pick up the girls from school on Wednesday, to be given a letter from the Headmaster outlining the contents of a directive he- and all the other schools in the County Borough- had received and been ordered to implement.
Basically it means that the much anticipated treat for the little ones of having class chocolate Advent calendars, with each child getting the chance to open a window and eat the chocolate inside has been cancelled.
The staff`s normal practice of giving each child a small chocolate treat as a Christmas End of term gift has been cancelled - even if it is fully wrapped and sealed, and was bought in a shop !
The School`s Christmas Fayre has been cancelled, as no food is allowed to be brought into school .
All the baked goods which the parents donated to this event, and for refreshments at the school`s Nativity play can no longer be brought into school.
The Nursery class can no longer have fruit in a fruit bowl for the children to eat. The Nursery Teacher can no longer prepare fruit at home for the children to eat in school. Try explaining to a class of three and four year olds why they can no longer have their morning fruit each day.
The list is endless, draconian and utterly pointless.
If the local Council were truly concerned about being sued by parents if their children could provably have contracted E Coli via food provided or prepared in school, why are they still providing school dinners, which is how the E Coli was spread in the first place...................... ?
And why on earth were these draconian measures not implemented right at the beginning of the outbreak, when they could then conceivably have helped limit the spread of the infection ? Not now, several MONTHS later.
Talk about bolting the stable door when the horse has not only bolted, but died of old age and been sent to the knacker`s yard..................
2 comments:
Ugh. That's not sensible at all.
I'm sorry about the Christmas Fayre.
The heaviest element in the world is "administratium". It is so heavy it drags everything that touches it down to the lowest possible place on earth.
sigh....we think we can keep the fallen world out of our lives by administration and laws. Its just fallen humanity trying to unfall the world by rules.
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